Keep it simple! A touch technique peritoneal dialysis procedure for the blind and visually impaired.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Diabetes is the main cause of blindness in patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). The number of diabetic patients who require dialysis has increased from 16% in 1981 to 30% in 1999 (CIHI, 1999). Therefore, it is important for blind individuals to find a peritoneal dialysis (PD) technique that will ensure their independence and prevent peritonitis. In July 2000, the home peritoneal dialysis unit (HPDU), Toronto Western Hospital (TWH), University Health Network, successfully developed and implemented a "touch technique" connection procedure for the blind and visually impaired. The procedure involved is a touch technique connection utilizing the Fresenius Premier Plus Double Bag system. Three blind patients on the UV Flash peritoneal dialysis system were retrained in the touch technique on a one-to-one basis for an average of four days. Additionally, they were each given a procedural audiotape or CD for reference at home. This simple touch technique has enabled these three patients the freedom of a relatively independent lifestyle. They have been peritonitis-free since implementation, for 19, 15 and four months respectively. This technique allows blind and visually-impaired ESRD patients to perform peritoneal dialysis in their homes and, thus, maintain independence.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".